Verse of the day
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.”
– Acts 5:29
Voice of the day
Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.
– Arundhati Roy, “Public Power in the Age of Empire”
Prayer of the day
God of justice and courage, strengthen our hearts to obey you above all earthly powers, that we may refuse to fuel the engines of war and instead labor for peace.
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”—Mohandas Gandhi
Verse of the day
O Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill? Those who walk blamelessly and do what is right and speak the truth from their heart.
– Psalm 15:1–2
Voice of the day
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
– Simone de Beauvoir
Prayer of the day
Lord, may we speak truth from the heart not out of guilt or duty, but with the joy of drawing nearer to your holy presence.
“Non-conformity for reasons of conscience is the first duty of Christ’s followers. . . . When human beings liberate themselves from the ‘what will others say about me’ syndrome, to champion the rights of those without voices, they will be ready to practice the other Christian virtues of purity, goodness, patience, and forgiveness (and will experience) the Gospel’s liberating power.”—André Trocmé, The Memoirs of André Trocmé: The Pastor Who Rescued Jews, translated from French by Patrick Henry and Mary Anne O’Neil. (Coming September 2025 from Plough Books)
“As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.”—Rosa Parks
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on this island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Verse of the day
As far as the east is from the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us.
– Psalm 103:12
Voice of the day
Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.
– Bryan Stevenson, “Just Mercy” (2014)
Prayer of the day
God of new beginnings, thank you for removing our sins and reminding us we are so much more than them.
“It is an unpatriotic lie that we as a nation are based in individualism. The Constitution underscores the fact that we are rooted and raised in a communal society and that we each have a responsibility to build up the whole. The Preamble to the Constitution could not be any clearer: ‘We the People’ are called to ‘form a more perfect Union.’”—Simone Campbell with David Gibson, A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community
“For the planet and for all living beings to move forward, we can rely on nothing less than an inherent original goodness and a universally shared dignity. Only then can we build, because the foundation is strong and is itself good. . . The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better. Oppositional energy only creates more of the same. All problem solving must first be guided by a positive and overarching vision.”—Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe
“Every time that you remain silent in the face of injustice just know that someone else is raising their voice or have raised their voices so that you can enjoy the privileges that you have, someone chose to be vulnerable so that you can access the privileges that you enjoy.”—Marcia Ranglin-Vassell
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